Aerowaves - Dance Across Europe is a European platform that discovers and supports emerging choreographers. Every year the partners in the network select 20 artists (Aerowaves Twenty) from hundreds of applications, and the platform gives them performance opportunities across Europe and encounters with programmers and audiences.
Derida Dance Center has been a member of Aerowaves since 2012 and is the platform’s Bulgarian partner. In March 2018 we hosted the Spring Forward festival in Sofia, which presented 21 performances. Derida Company’s F 63.9 was also selected for Twenty18.
For many years we presented Aerowaves artists in Sofia through the Aerowaves in Sofia festival, and today their work is part of the Derida Dance Fest programme.
More about the platform: aerowaves.org
From 23 to 25 March 2018 Derida Dance Center hosted Spring Forward, the annual festival of Aerowaves. Five venues in Sofia presented 21 performances: all the artists from Twenty18, including Derida Company’s F 63.9, and the guest performance A Silver Knife by Goblin Party from Korea. The festival was also streamed online, and Springback Magazine, the Aerowaves publication for dance criticism, was launched during it.
In November 2024 the Aerowaves in Sofia festival presented:
The programme also included the results of four residencies, AudioSelf by Bratan Bratanov, Trans*Performativity by AURA, Luna by José Avilés and Forget Me Not by Catarina Casqueiro and Tiago Coelho, as well as 8 workshops for professional dancers and talks with the artists after the performances.
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